Sun Manager wrote: > Hi, > > I am pretty new to Solaris 10 and am slowly getting used to some of > its niceties - zfs being one of them. On my first venture with it, I > have configured a storage pool containing a few slices from a single > disk. This disk is under a hardware raid control, the server in > question being a Sunfire X4200. I have infact mirrored the disk at the > bios level. I intend to use Zfs more for volume management rather than > redundancy. I have also read some of the recommendations for ZFS > mainly of having seperate whole disks to create the pool. If this is > for performance reasons, how good/safe is my configuration of using > multiple slices to create my pool?
Perfectly safe, but you will loose out in performance to whole disks. > I also have plans of using LUNS from my Clariion Storage which may be > hardware mirrored or RAID5 LUNs. At the host can I treat them as > seperate disks and configure a pool of multi-terrabyte dimensions and > have filesystems > 2TB? > Don't forget what the 'Z' in ZFS stands for! Ian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
